About whether god is alive or dead:

Is God alive? This seems a silly question in the light of God’s knowledge and truth. It is plain enough to us that a dead man cannot follow an argument nor give a rebuttal, a fact that makes abuse of the dead a safe outlet for a coward’s malice. Only the living can understand.

Yet again and again men [and women!] have played the game of living with a dead God, making Him a symbol, an impersonal cosmic thing, a promise of the future, or a product of the hands or the minds of men. It is very much to the point in our time to ask: is God alive? And, if He is, how much of life is there in Him?

Farrell O.P S.T.M., Walter; Healy S.T.D., Martin J. (2015-09-23). My Way of Life (Kindle Locations 370-374). Ravenio Books. Kindle Edition.

See what this marvelous little book does? It puts questions worth cogitating. Get hooked on such matters, and you are on your way to reading further (and to a fuller life while you’re at it).

(Note that this is adaptation of what T.A. wrote, in Latin of course, in the 13th century, when Latin was de rigueur. Here recast by Walter Farrell, O.P.)

An International Women’s Day story for everyone.

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“I’m trying to visualize that,” said Rush Limbaugh.

At which a guffaw could be forgiven.

. . . Why don’t we include public-employee union leadership when we cite bottlenecks in solving them?

Rather than focusing on Rauner and Rahm, for instance?

Cannot say enough for this gem of a book. Pocket-size, near poetic.  In some sense a book to live by.

My Way of Life: Pocket edition of St. Thomas; the Summa Simplified for Everyone, Paperback – 1952

by O.P., S.T.M. Walter Farrell (Author), S.T.D. Martin J. Healy (Author)

When the heaven will he get that? (And shut up about world politics)

And he might also review his defining down of the office to which he was elected.

As in this: “I don’t see myself as anything special… I’m a sinner, I’m fallible.” Nothing special, eh? Might he tone down his own populism?

On the other hand, he need not remind us he’s fallible, with off-cuff commentary on a regular basis. When he’s gone, will he have left the papacy in shambles, as Obama has left the Democratic party?

And they knock Trump for his tweets.

Also known as fiddling while the state burns with deep fiscal fires.

Illinois’s state lawmakers are busy these days, but not with trying to reform the pension system or improve Springfield’s dismal bond rating. Instead, they’re moving to designate October 2017 as Zombie Preparedness Month.

This may sound like a joke, but it’s (un)deadly serious: A resolution adopted by the state House last month contends that “while a Zombie Apocalypse may never happen, the preparation for such an event is the same as for any natural disaster.” Residents are urged to “create a stockpile of food, water, and other emergency supplies that can last up to 72 hours.” Other items to have on hand in case of marauding zombie hordes: “medications, tools, electronics, sanitation and hygiene, clothing and bedding, important documents, and first aid.”

But what about the state’s fiscal apocalypse, which is not only happening right now but has plunged Illinois into a bona fide financial disaster?

Read the rest of the bad (non-) news from Chicago lawyer Gerald Skoning in Wall St. Journal.

And weep, you blue, blue denizens of The Prairie State.

(For more about Illinois Blues, read a little book about it which illustrates How The Ruling Party Talks to Voters.)

It’s easy if you know how.

In summary: the Obama administration sought, and eventually obtained, authorization to eavesdrop on the Trump campaign; continued monitoring the Trump team even when no evidence of wrongdoing was found; then relaxed the NSA rules to allow evidence to be shared widely within the government, virtually ensuring that the information, including the conversations of private citizens, would be leaked to the media.

There.

Connecting the dots.

Here are all the pieces. The Timeline, if you will. Breitbart first put together some of the pieces, here is more from The Conservative Treehouse.  Ask yourself why the Leftist Old Media has not put these pieces together by now? They know much of this information and now they have the pieces all together in one place, but will they report this?

You can start with #1 on this list, why did the Obama administration file a request in June 2016 to monitor communications between Donald Trump and his advisers? Why? Will anyone from the media ask that first question? Then as #4 states, why did the Obama administration file another request in October 2016, that was approved, then when nothing is found they continue the surveillance of the Trump campaign? Why? Why did the Obama administration never look into what the Clinton campaign did to ‘rig’ the Primary Election with Bernie Sanders?

Lots of questions, and the media still refuses to ask. The media was spied on by the Obama administration, why would it be so tough to believe that he would not do the same to a political rival? Obama, through a spokesperson, has denied he had anything to do with this – if so, then he would welcome justice being served upon those who did authorize this.

Well.

Could a Pope be in Schism? by Edward N. Peter, J.C.D. J.D., of The Dispatch via The Catholic World Report Pope Francis: Vernacular Stirred Up Problems in Music “Mediocre, Superficial & Banal” – ZOrdinary Heroes, Martyrs for the Eucharist – Nicholas W. Smith, National Catholic RegisterOn the Role of the Holy Spirit in Papal Elections – Jeffrey…

via SUNDAY EDITION — Big Pulpit

Evidence laid out by both Mark Levin and Bookwormroom make a compelling and obvious case against the Obama administration acting to undermine Donald Trump. This is a direct threat to our Republic & if the GOP cannot come together to launch an investigation against Obama then the GOP is officially dead. Not to say it […]

via Finding the real Obama — the Obama wiretapping edition — Politically Short